180 
Appendix I. 
sentences “ in the language of the Kafirs as near as I have been able 
to pick it up.” These exhibit 25 words, some of which are Urdu, others 
Sanskrit. The grammar does not tally with mine. It is not stated 
what dialect was employed. 
By the kindness of Dr. Oust I have been able to inspect Colonel 
Tanner’s collection of manuscript papers on the Dehgano or Darah Nuri 
dialect of the Laghman language and on the language of the Sauu Kafirs. 
The Darah Nurl collection consists of about fifteen foolscap pages of 
words and sentences. Many words are similar to the Persian ; a few only, 
including the system of numeration, e.g., 'painjwea (5 x 20), are similar to 
those in my Bashgall collection. The grammar differs from mine, the 
infinitive ending in k. 
The collection of specimens of the language spoken by the Sanu or Warn 
tribe of Lai Kafirs, (as taken down from a man of the Chugani tribe), 
comprises about 170 words and 70 short sentences, as spoken in “ Sanu- 
glam, a town situated at the head of a valley that flows Northward from 
the Kund Mountains into Darah Pech. The Sanus are enemies of the 
neighbouring tribes of Katawar Kafirs, and do not understand their 
language.” 
About one-third of the words are very similar to those in my collection. 
The terminals of some tenses of the verbs (notably the future) agree with 
my examples. 
About half of the words, as shown in a comparative table drawn up by 
Professor E. Trumpp, who recently saw the collection, agree more or less 
with the words in his work referred to on p. 182. 
About twenty per cent, of the words are similar to corresponding words 
in the Waigull collection of Sir H. Lumsden. 
Hardly any of the words correspond with the Wasi-Veri or Veron lan¬ 
guage as recorded by Dr. Grierson. 
Terentief. —Russia and England in Asia. 1875 . Translated by 
Daukes , Calcutta , 1876. —He gives a specimen of the Bolor or Kafir 
language (see Appendix IV). It does not correspond with my collection. 
Terentief says the Siah-posh style themselves Bolors; he thinks they 
are descendants of 20,000 slaves (Sklabinoi) who emigrated in 664 A.D. 
to Syria, and that Russia is therefore specially interested in them, an 
hypothesis which his translator and other critics consider untenable. 
Timur 'Beq.— ^History of, by Oherefeddin Ali ; translated into French 
by Mom. Petits do la Croix. —Timur invaded the country of the Ketuers 
